Mop holder



Feb. 1-8, 1958 T. L. JONES 2,823,405

MOP HOLDER Filed June 7, 1955 I N VEN TOR MAMMA .BY mw V ATTORNEYS,

United States Patent i MOP HOLDER Troy L. Jones, Columbia, S. C.Application June 7, 1955, Serial No. 513,750

2 Claims. (Cl. 15-153) This invention is an improved mop holder. Thestandard mop per se, composed usually of cotton strands, has anencircling band for holding the strands in position at about the middlethereof. The principal object of the present invention is to provide animproved mop holder which will utilize such a standard mop and will sohold such mop that the metallic ends of the mop holder are, in effect,within the outer portions of the mop, so that in use such outer metallicends, even when run along the baseboard of a room, will not contact andscratch the baseboard.

To this end, the mop holder comprises a substantially U-shaped troughmember and a pair of diverging supporting arms which engage in the endsof the trough member. The bottom of each end of the trough member isprovided with an inset recess, the open end of which faces outwardly,and the diverging, supporting arms are provided with inwardly-turnedends which are seated in respective recesses. As a result of this construction, the outermost portion of said in-turned ends is substantiallyhush with the outer edges of the trough so that they do not projectbeyond the ends of the trough and so do not scratch the baseboard.

The invention further comprises a detachable anchor Ibar which serves toengage against and clamp the middle of the mop in place in the troughfor holding the mop in operative position. The ends of this anchor barextend almost to the end faces of the in-turned ends of the supportingarms. 1n other words, the anchor bar just clears the end faces of saidin-turned ends.

Further details of construction and operation will be described inconnection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. l is a side view, partly in section, of the improved mop holder otthe present invention;

Fig. 2. is a cross-section taken along line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a plan view on an enlarged scale of the mop holder.

Referring now to these drawings, the mop holder comprises a pair ofsupporting, diverging arms 2 and 4, adapted to engage and support thetrough-like mop engaging member o, which is substantially U-shaped, saidtrough member having a bottom wall 8. Each end of the bottom wall 8 isprovided with an inset recess 10 adapted to receive the inwardly bentends 12 ot the supporting arms 2 and 4. Ends l2 are preferably welded inplace at 13. The depth ot each recess is about the same as the diameterot the inwardly turned ends l2, so that the outermost portion of thearms 2 and 4 is substantially ilush with the ends 14 ot the trough 6.

l 2,823,405 Patented Feb. 18, 1958 rice A mop 16 of standardconstruction is held in place in`= the trough by an anchor bar or rod18. In order to anchor this rod, there is provided a threaded member 20whichfextends through the bottom wall 8 and partially encircles rod 18,as at 22, being secured thereto by welding. On the threaded member 20 isa wing or similar nut 23 which can be readily loosened and tightened upfor removing and replacing the mop.

With the described construction, wherein the outermost parts of the arms2 and 4 are within the outer edges 14 of the trough, there are noprojecting portions to mar the baseboard when the mop is in use. Inpractice, with the mop clamped in position by the anchor bar 18, theside portions of the mop are outwardly laterally over and outside theends 14 of the trough, so that these ends and the ends of the arms 2 and4 are in effect embedded within the mop and so cannot scratch thebaseboard.

The arms 2 and 4 are bent into parallelism at 24, and these parallelportions may be secured to a cylinder 26 for receiving the end 28 of theordinary wooden mop handle. The bent portions of the supporting arms arefurther secured in place by a disc or washer 30 provided with suitableholes for the passage therethrough of the bent portions of arms 2 and 4.The lower ends of portions 24 are secured in sockets 33 in retainingring 32, in turn secured to cylinder 26.

I claim as my invention:

1. A mop holder, comprising in combination a substantially U-shapedtrough, the bottom of said trough being provided with an open-endedrecess at each end thereof, a pair of diverging arms having inturnedends, said inturned ends being seated in said recesses and having aportion overlying and permanently secured to said trough, said recessesbeing at least as deep as the thickness of said inturned ends of saiddiverging arms, a substantially straight anchor bar, shorter than saidtrough and positioned just above the bottom of said trough and extendingparallel to and lengthwise thereof, and positioned between the end facesof said inturned ends of said arms and on the same level therewith, andin line therewith, and a centrally positioned threaded member passingthrough the bottom of said trough and secured to said anchor bar, andprovided with a cooperating nut, for holding said anchor bar toward thebottom of said trough.

2. The combination of claim 1, further comprising a cylindrical memberadapted to receive the end of a mop handle, said diverging arms beingbent into parallelism alongside and outside of said cylindrical member,and means engageable with said parallel portions of said arms forsecuring said parallel portions alongside and outside said cylindricalmember.

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